tal boger
@talboger.bsky.social
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third-year phd student at jhu psych | perception + cognition
https://talboger.github.io/
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Sally Berson
3 days ago
Is core knowledge actually core *perception*? In a forthcoming piece in BBS,
@shariliu.bsky.social
, Lisa Feigenson, & I comment on
@daweibai.bsky.social
et al.ās target article.
osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/vnbep
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Dorsa Amir
15 days ago
What does it mean for culture to āshapeā cognition? In our new TiCS paper,
@benjaminpitt.bsky.social
& I offer a typology of four possible effects: culture can Privilege one cognitive process over others, Prune out disfavored ones, Produce new ones, or have no effect.
www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
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Society for Philosophy and Psychology
16 days ago
š„Now announcing the winner of the 2026 Stanton Prize: Congratulations, Melissa Kibbe
@levelsof.bsky.social
! āļø āļø āļø āļø āļø This honor will be celebrated at the upcoming meeting of the SPP
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Society for Philosophy and Psychology (SPP)
https://www.socphilpsych.org/prizes.html
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A few years ago, my favorite website (
@puddingviz.bsky.social
) put out this great piece analyzing a study of how randomizing ability changes with age. It includes demos where readers produce sequences of random coin flips, dice rolls, and locations in a 3x3 grid.
pudding.cool/2022/04/rand...
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We think this cool study we found is flawed. Help us reproduce it.
Are 25 year olds really more random than 60 year olds?
https://pudding.cool/2022/04/random/
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Gabe Waterhouse
3 months ago
I am very excited to announce that over the holidays, my first ever paper (w/
@samiyousif.bsky.social
) was published in Cognitive Science! Here, we describe a new illusion of *number*: The Crowd Size Illusion!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Chaz Firestone
4 months ago
Well this is exciting! The Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins University (
@jhu.edu
) invites applications for a full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty member in Cognitive Psychology, in any area and at any rank! Application + more info:
apply.interfolio.com/178146
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Chaz Firestone
5 months ago
Congratulations (and thank you) to
@talboger.bsky.social
, who lectured in front of nearly 500
@jhu.edu
undergraduates today on the psychology of music! They didnāt see it coming, and then they loved it :)
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can't believe the IRB approved this part ā hope the children are ok!
5 months ago
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Chaz Firestone
6 months ago
What a lovely 'spotlight' of
@talboger.bsky.social
's work on style perception! Written by
@aennebrielmann.bsky.social
in
@cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social
. See Aenne's paper below, as well as Tal's original work here:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Johns Hopkins University
6 months ago
When a butterfly becomes a bear, perception takes center stage. Research from
@talboger.bsky.social
,
@chazfirestone.bsky.social
and the Perception & Mind Lab.
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Chaz Firestone
6 months ago
Out today!
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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important question for dev people: when reporting demographics for a paper involving both kids and adults, we want some consistency in how we report that information. so do you call the kids "men" and "women", or do you call the adults "boys" and āgirls"?
6 months ago
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sami is such a creative, thoughtful, and fun mentor. anyone who gets to work with him is so lucky!
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6 months ago
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Sami Yousif
7 months ago
Visual adaptation is viewed as a test of whether a feature is represented by the visual system. In a new paper, Sam Clarke and I push the limits of this test. We show spatially selective, putatively "visual" adaptation to a clearly non-visual dimension: Value!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Can we āseeā value? Spatiotopic āvisualā adaptation to an imperceptible dimension
In much recent philosophy of mind and cognitive science, repulsive adaptation effects are considered a litmus test ā a crucial marker, that distinguisā¦
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027725002318?dgcid=coauthor
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Chaz Firestone
7 months ago
It's true: This is the first project from our lab that has a "Merch" page! Get yours @
www.perceptionresearch.org/anagrams/mer...
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On the left is a rabbit. On the right is an elephant. But guess what: Theyāre the *same image*, rotated 90°! In
@currentbiology.bsky.social
,
@chazfirestone.bsky.social
& I show how these imagesāknown as āvisual anagramsāācan help solve a longstanding problem in cognitive science.
bit.ly/45BVnCZ
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Chaz Firestone
8 months ago
Out today!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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noam chompers
8 months ago
Lab-mate got my ass on the lab when2meet
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Amazing new work from
@gabrielwaterhouse.bsky.social
and
@samiyousif.bsky.social
! I'm convinced the crowd size illusion is real, but the rooms full of people watching Gabe give awesome talks at
@socphilpsych.bsky.social
and
@vssmtg.bsky.social
were no illusion!
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9 months ago
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Chaz Firestone
9 months ago
@sallyberson.bsky.social
in action at
@socphilpsych.bsky.social
!
#SPP2025
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Chaz Firestone
9 months ago
Susan Carey sitting in the front row of a grad student talk (by
@talboger.bsky.social
) and going back and forth during Q&A is what makes the
@socphilpsych.bsky.social
so special! Loved this interaction š¤
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Now officially out!
psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
(Free version here:
talboger.github.io/files/Boger_...
)
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10 months ago
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Chaz Firestone
10 months ago
It's
@vssmtg.bsky.social
! So excited to share this year's projects from the lab, including brand new research directions and some deep dives on foundational issues. More info @
perception.jhu.edu/vss/
. See you on the š!
#VSS2025
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Looking at Van Goghās Starry Night, we see not only its content (a French village beneath a night sky) but also its *style*. How does that work? How do we see style? In
@nathumbehav.nature.com
,
@chazfirestone.bsky.social
& I take an experimental approach to style perception!
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Sami Yousif
12 months ago
Sam Clarke and I have been writing a lot about adaptation -- what it is, what it isn't, what it reveals about perception. We've just released a preprint that pushes the boundaries of adaptation even further. We document spatially selective adaptation to arbitrary *value*.
philpapers.org/rec/CLACWS
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Sam Clarke & Sami Yousif, Can we āseeā value? Spatiotopic āvisualā adaptation to an imperceptible dimension - PhilPapers
Adaptation is a fundamental mechanism of biological cognitive systems. To many, adaptation is also a litmus test ā a tool for discerning what is perceived as opposed to what is merely ...
https://philpapers.org/rec/CLACWS
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noam chompers
about 1 year ago
Danny wolf transferred from Yale to Michigan, what is he, writing a friggin metaethics dissertation, folks?
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Sami Yousif
about 1 year ago
I'm really, really excited about our recent paper on children's understanding of topological spatial relations (w/ Lily Goldstein and Liz Brannon). I've linked the paper here, but I'll summarize the thread below.
direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...
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Childrenās Understanding of Topological Relations
Abstract. A core aim of developmental cognitive science is to uncover the basic building blocks of human thought. For instance, work revealing that even young children, adults without formal education...
https://direct.mit.edu/opmi/article/doi/10.1162/opmi_a_00194/128412/Children-s-Understanding-of-Topological-Relations
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Watch this video. Do you remember seeing a ball in the second half of the video? Up to 37% of our participants reported seeing a ball, even though it wasnāt there. Why? In a new paper in press @ Cognition, Brent Strickland and I ask what causes event completion.
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about 1 year ago
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Suppose you generated a sequence of 100 random numbers. Then one year later, you did it again. Do you think we could predict one sequence from the other? It turns out, we can! Now in press @ JEP:G with
@samiyousif.bsky.social
@actlab.bsky.social
@robbrutledge.bsky.social
;
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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about 1 year ago
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Which is more complex: A bicycle or a car? Object complexity comes in many different kinds ā such as visual, mechanistic, and more. How are these kinds related? Now out @ JEP:G, Frank Keil and I argue that mechanistic complexity is fundamental.
psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...
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https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-47442-001
about 1 year ago
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